The Fifth Risk by Michael Lewis
The bestselling, no-holds-barred exposé of the people who are wrecking our democracy, by the master storyteller of our times.
The morning after Trump was elected president, the people who ran the US Department of Energy - an agency that deals with some of the most powerful risks facing humanity - waited to welcome the incoming administration's transition team. Nobody appeared. Across the US government, the same thing happened: nothing.
People don't notice when stuff goes right. That is the stuff government does. It manages everything that underpins our lives from funding free school meals, to policing rogue nuclear activity, to predicting extreme weather events. It steps in where private investment fears to tread, innovates and creates knowledge, assesses extreme long-term risk.
And now, government is under attack. By its own leaders.
In The Fifth Risk, Michael Lewis reveals the combustible cocktail of willful ignorance and venality that is fuelling the destruction of a country's fabric. All of this, Lewis shows, exposes America and the world to the biggest risk of all. It is what you never learned that might have saved you.
About the Author
Michael Lewis was born in New Orleans and educated at Princeton University and the London School of Economics. He has written several books including the New York Times bestsellers Liar's Poker, widely considered the book that defined Wall Street during the 1980s, and The Big Short, 'probably the single best piece of financial journalism ever written' (Reuters). Lewis is contributing writer for The New York Times Magazine and also writes for Vanity Fair and Portfolio Magazine.
Format: Paperback | 256 pages
Dimensions (cm): 19.7 x 13.0 x 1.6 | 190g
Publication Date: 03 Dec 2019
Publisher: Penguin UK
Publication City/Country: London, United Kingdom
Language: English
Edition Number: 1
ISBN10: 0141991429
ISBN13: 9780141991429
Condition: Good
A book that has been read but is in good condition. Very minimal damage to the cover including very minor scuff marks, creasing and scratches, but no holes or tears. All pages are undamaged with no creasing or tearing, no pencil underlining of text, no highlighting of text, no writing in margins. No missing pages.